Moheinous wrote, on Boater Talk (8/13/01), "I'm sure someone's been there before , but with all the rain i decided to go have a look at Spivey Creek TN today. The Nolichucky at 16,000 should clue people into possiblities in the watershed. In just the few roadside stops i saw numerous ten foot drops, a clean thirty footer, and a potentially runnable fifty footer. I uuess this one is the Spivey Falls listed on maps of the area. Probably the creek was too high for most of the day, i saw it after 5 PM today and it looked to be a perfect level. There were many more drops and gradient that i couldn't see. The few i did look at were serious video quality big ones similar to N. Fork Catawba." Looks like this suckah drops at at least 300 ft/mile in that short stretch. Careful, boyz'n'gurls!
Spivey falls being run by Mark Taylor http://www.fluid-junction.com/blog/index.php/post/2013/05/17/Spivey-Falls-by-Mark-Taylor
50 footer lands on huge dome rock, completely unrunnable. the few drops above are hard to get down to and not worth the effort.
I ran a short section of this creek with my buddies a while back. it is pretty steep. here is a link to some video i shot of the run http://homepage.mac.com/kevinjulieevan/Kayaking_page/iMovieTheater68.html email me if you want some more info. kevin22@aol.com
The gage is for the Nolichucky, and thus is only an indication. It might help to check the AFWS Rain Gages for this area.
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